190 Recently published Ornithological Works. 



bound from New York, and more than GOO miles from land, 

 scattered flocks of Sandpipers were observed, all flying 

 strongly, nor swerving from their course in any way, and 

 in a S.E. by E. direction ! This, if persisted in, would have 

 landed them in Africa ; but perhaps the weather, which was 

 somewhat foggy, may have been responsible for this erratic 

 proceeding in the month of May. 



32. Barnes on the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. 



[Handbook to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency. By Lieut. H. 

 Edwin Barnes, D.A.O. 8vo. Calcutta : 1885.] 



Mr, Barnes's Handbook is a concentration into one volume 

 of " Jerdon,'' or at least of such portions of it as relate 

 to the Birds of the Bombay Presidency, Its object is to place 

 within the reach of all the author^s fellow -workers in that part 

 of India " a book that will enable them to identify any bird 

 they may meet with.'' This object, we think, Mr, Barnes 

 has carried out successfully, although it is obvious that by 

 following so closely the method and arrangement of a book 

 that Avas published so many years ago he has, in many cases, 

 sacrificed correctness to convenience, Mr, Barnes has been 

 a careful observer of bird-life during his twenty years' re- 

 sidence in India, and his notes on this branch of his subject 

 may be confidently relied upon. 



33, Bechham on some Kentucky Birds. 



[List of the Birds of Nelson County. By Charles Wickliffe Beckham. 

 Kentucky Geol. Surv. September 1885.] 



In 1883 Mr. Beckham published a list of the birds of 

 Nelson County, Kentucky, in the Journal of the Cincinnati 

 Society of Natural History, Upon this is based the present 

 paper, which has been prepared to accompany a report on 

 the geology of the district. The list contains the names of 

 171 species. The accompanying observations were mostly 

 made in the vicinity of Bardstown, which is situated "just 

 on the western limit of the ' Blue-grass Region,' forty milevS 

 south-east of Louisville," 



